Ammerbach Church (Jena)
The Protestant village church Ammerbach in the rural district of Ammerbach of the city of Jena in Thuringia belongs to the pastoral care district Links der Saale of the church district Jena in the provost district Gera-Weimar of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
location
The district is located in a southwestern direction of the old town of Jena in a village framed by the mountains of the Saale valley . There is the village church on the right hand side in the middle of the rural village on the road to Bucha .
history
A chapel belonging to the Lobeda parish is documented for the year 1228 . The tower and nave were built in the 13th century . A walled up arched door is on the south side of the nave behind a baroque stone and on the east side of the old nave there is a walled up stone with Romanesque tendrils. These Romanesque capitals were Gothicized in the 14th to 15th centuries and the original apse in the east was replaced by a choir square . The church is a single-nave building with a retracted choir tower . In 1718/19 the Gothic tower was partially demolished, which was replaced by an octagonal baroque tower with a tail dome and lantern above the choir square. 1740–1745 the building was renovated and given a baroque interior . The church was parish off to Burgau from 1529 and became a branch church of Lichtenhain in 1903 .
Interior
The three-sided galleries are two-story on the south and north sides. The nave spans a flattened wooden barrel. The cross-vaulted choir with a square floor plan opens through the triumphal arch . There is also the pulpit altar from 1740 with a pair of columns and crowned by a blown gable .
The organ with two manuals and pedal as well as 16 registers was created in 1861 by Johann Friedrich Schmidt from Gaberndorf .
Furnishing
- the pulpit altar from 1745, designed by Michael Zieger from Lobeda
- Four-wing carved altar from October 25, 1504 from the Saalfeld school by the master of the Meckfeld altar . The altar was removed from the church in the 18th century. The right outer wing is missing, the left one is owned by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and can currently be seen in the Marienkirche (Mühlhausen) . The rest of the shrine can be viewed in the church.
- Panel painting - Lamentation of Christ
- Bell from the end of the 14th century
- The tower clock by Johann Friedrich Weule from 1927.
- A dugout chest with heavy iron fittings, in which sacred objects and money were kept in the Middle Ages.
Web links
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- The church at www.dietrich-bonhoeffer-gemeinde-jena.de , accessed on October 31, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Church district Jena - municipalities and regions , website of the EKM.
- ↑ a b c Traugott Keßler, Petra Zippel: Cultural monuments in Jena. Jena 2000.
- ↑ Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexikon Norddeutscher Orgelbauer, Volume 1: Thuringia and bypass, p. 261. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4
- ↑ Ammerbach Church on the Jena Church District website, accessed on October 31, 2017
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 17.7 " N , 11 ° 33 ′ 17" E